This is a curated list of articles I've read and have shared online as I believe they are worth sharing. I aim to update this list on a weekly basis. You can keep up to date with all the links I share by revisiting this page, or alternately, you can subscribe to the RSS feed for links.
The IndieWeb is the new and the old web
When I first started developing websites back in 2000 the internet was a much simpler place. Google existed, but most people still used Yahoo or Ask Jeeves to…
Readable code tips: Introduction
There’s lots about code that slows us down I’ve been doing a lot of code reviews recently. And while most of the code I review works (by which I mean: meets the…
Better type layouts with CSS
I wanted to quickly share two newer CSS properties that make it easier to create nice, well-balanced layouts. The text-wrap property has two newish…
When to Nest CSS
With the recent news that CSS nesting is now available in the major evergreen browsers , our team was discussing how it differs from nesting in Sass , and the…
Time to Ditch Analytics? Tracking Scripts and Web Sustainability
This article on privacy-focussed web design by Paul Jardine and Becky Thorn of sustainably-minded web design agency Root raises some great points about the link…
Lightweight search in Eleventy
I've been using Pagefind for my site search for a while now and would readily recommend it, but I wanted to throw together something a bit lighter weight and…
We Need to Talk About Your Eleventy Post Dates
Since I really got back into following RSS feeds in the past couple of years I've noticed a problem with Eleventy sites[1] and post…
Welcome to the IndieWeb
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there…
The 'IndieWeb' feels like coming home
The 'IndieWeb' feels like coming home tech personal Eleventy IndieWeb featured Due to the convenience of not needing to code or maintain anything…
How I Eleventy
I first starting using Eleventy to build this site back in 2020 using version 0.10.0 and through a combination of the official documentation and other people's…